Photo Gallery: Lafayette 9/11 memorial vandalized

Photo Gallery: Lafayette 9/11 memorial vandalized

Photo provided by KATC -- One or more vandals attached cutouts depicting planes crashing and exploding into Lafayette’s 9/11 memorial downtown, vandalism that was discovered Wednesday morning on the anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks.

LAFAYETTE — Salvador Perez, 35, of Lafayette, is accused of hanging models of exploding planes on beams from the World Trade Center in a downtown park early Wednesday — the 12th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.